TEMPORARY RICK FOR SAVING CORN. g&> 



if necessary ; the next two on the adjoining four hurdles; 

 and the other two loads on the four remaining hurdles; so 

 that though these three ricks were close to each other, yet 

 being set up separately, they admitted air between each, 

 from the bottom to the top, and yet adjoined sufficiently to- 

 make one continued roof to be thatched together. 



When these six loads were removed from the field, I had 

 room to turn the remaining parcels towards each other, and 

 more towards the middle of the field, so as to have more 

 air to dry. But they were not sufficiently dry till the 27th, 

 when they were carried to another set of sixteen hurdles 

 ready to take them, and each waggon load laid over the 

 whole length of \6 hurdles, not being so damp as to require 

 being carried up in separate ricks, as the former six loads. 

 Some of these pease have been already thrashed, and prove 

 to be in very good coudition, as also the haulm, which is 

 perfectly dry and sweet for cattle. 



One of these ricks of pease, and probably some of the 

 ricks of wheat, will not be taken in till the month of Feb- 

 ruary next: they may therefore be inspected by any member 

 pf the Society, who may visit this neighbourhood. 



I have enclosed a certificate from Mr. Waldron, a gentle- 

 man of this parish, who farms his own estate; and another 

 certificate from Mr. Hewitt, also of this parish, who is 

 esteemed a respectable and intelligent farmer ; he rents a 

 farm from Mr. Ware, brother to Mr. Ware of the house of 

 Ware, Bruce, and Co. London. 



I am, sir, 

 Your most obedient servant, 



W. JONES. 

 FoxdownHill, Oct. 30th, 1810. 



SIR, 



Agreeably to your request, I lose no time to give Size of tempo* 

 you the information you desire, respecting the temporary rar y corn nck » 

 corn ricks, and the size they may be made. The space be- 

 tween the two outside hurdles contains about sixty sheaves 

 on each side, or one hundred and twenty in the whole, to 

 reach the top of the hurdles. Every round of sheaves after- 

 ward takes forty sheaves or upwards, say fifteen roundshigh, 

 which makes six hundred sheaves, and which will raise the 



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